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Marc A. Marti-Renom obtained a Ph.D. in Biophysics from the Universidad Autonoma de Barcelona where he worked on protein folding under the supervision of B. Oliva, F.X. Aviles and M. Karplus. After that, he went to the US for a postdoctoral training on protein structure modeling at the Sali Lab (Rockefeller University) as the recipient of the Burroughs Wellcome Fund fellowship. Later on, Marc was appointed Assistant Adjunct Professor at UCSF. Between 2006 and 2011, he headed of the Structural Genomics Group at the CIPF in Valencia (Spain). Currently, Marc is an ICREA research professor and leads the Structural Genomics Group at the National Center for Genomic Analysis – Centre for Genomic Regulation (CNAG-CRG) in Barcelona. His group is broadly interested on how RNA, proteins and genomes organize and regulate cell fate. Finally, Marc is an Associate Editor of the PLoS Computational Biology journal and has published over 75 articles in international peer-reviewed journals.

François Serra: obtained his Degree in Biology, specialized in Physiology and Neurophysiology, his Master’s Degree in Structural genomics and bioinformatics (Strasbourg I Universty, France) and it’s PhD in Evolutionary Genomics in the Department of Bioinformatics at the CIPF (Valencia). He is now part of the Structural Genomic team of Marc Marti-Renom at CNAG and at CRG (Barcelona). His main research interests are grounded on comparative genomics and evolution with a special focus on the effect of evolution in the structural arrangement of genomes. He has taught MEPA and 3DMOG for GTPB, and also in similar courses at CIPF (Valencia, ES) and the Department of Genetics of the University of Cambridge (UK).

Davide Baù obtained a Master degree in Chemistry at the University of Padua and completed a one-year course in bioinformatics at the University of Cologne. He then moved to the University College Dublin, where, in 2008, he got his PhD at the School of Computer Science and Informatics under the supervision of Dr. Gianluca Pollastri. His thesis focused on the development of an optimization algorithm that searched the space of protein C-alpha trace configurations under the guidance of a statistical potential based on features predicted by machine learning techniques. After his PhD, Davide moved to Dr. Marc Marti-Renom´s laboratory where he started to work on genomic domains and genome structures determination by integrating 3C-based and FISH data into the Integrative Modeling Platform (IMP). During this time, he developed the methods that led to the determination of the first high-resolution model of a human genomic region, the alpha-globin genomic domain, and of the first three-dimensional model of an entire bacterial genome, the Caulobacter Crescentus. He is currently involved in different collaborations that aim at determining the genome architecture of several organisms including Human, Yeast, Mycoplasma Pneumoniae, Fly and Mouse.moved to the University College Dublin, where, in 2008, he got his PhD at the School of Computer Science and Informatics under the supervision of Dr. Gianluca Pollastri. His thesis focused on the development of an optimization algorithm that searched the space of protein C-alpha trace configurations under the guidance of a statistical potential based on features predicted by machine learning techniques. After his PhD, Davide moved to Dr. Marc Marti-Renom’s laboratory where he started to work on genomic domains and genome structures determination by integrating 3C-based and FISH data into the Integrative Modeling Platform (IMP). During this time, he developed the methods that led to the determination of the first high-resolution model of a human genomic region, the alpha-globin genomic domain, and of the first three-dimensional model of an entire bacterial genome, the Caulobacter Crescentus. He is currently involved in different collaborations that aim at determining the genome architecture of several organisms including Human, Yeast, Mycoplasma Pneumoniae, Fly and Mouse.

Jürgen Walther obtained his B.Sc. degree at the University of Würzburg (Germany) in Physics and his master degree at the University of Texas at Austin (USA) in Physics with specialization in Biophysics. He is now working as a PhD student in the Molecular modeling and bioinformatics laboratory of Modesto Orozco at the Institute for Research in Biomedicine Barcelona. His main focus is developing a coarse-grained model to simulate large pieces of chromatin with a very high resolution. His model is a component of the Multiscale Genomics project where a unified view of the genome at all length scales from base-pair to chromosome in form of a webserver is developed.

Ricard Illa obtained his degree in Biochemistry at Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona and his Master’s degree on Bioinformatics on the same university. He is currently a PhD student in the Molecular Modeling and Bioinformatics group at Institute for Research in Biomedicine (Barcelona) under the supervision of Dr. Modesto Orozco. His main interests include the analysis of nucleosome positioning and its dynamic nature as well as the physical properties of chromatin.